Valve device



March 29, 1938. w WHEATON 2,112,640

' VALVE DEVICE Filed Feb. 10, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VENTOR.

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March 29, 1938.

A. w. WHEATON 2,112,640

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Patented Mar. 29, 1938 it UNITED stares Parent orrics VALVE DEVICE Abram W. Wheaten, Maplewood, N. J assignor to A. W. Wheaten Brass Works, Newark, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application February 10, 1936, Serial No. 63,091

2 Claims. (01.2'77-45) This invention relates to improvements in valve in the hereinabove described views, to indicate devices, and the invention has reference, more corresponding parts; particularly, to a novel construction of stop check Referring to Fig. 1 the reference character valve adapted for general use wherever a valve of indicates the tank of an oil delivery tank truck.

:3 this type is needed, but being especially adapted Tank l is usually divided into a plurality of com- 5;

for use in connection with a manifold designed to partments, having the respective outlet pipes 6 connect a plurality of fluid sources to a common leading therefrom brought to the rear of the tank discharge conduit or line. truck for convenient accessibility. Each outlet This invention has for an object to provide a pipe 6 is provided at its outer end with a stop 10 novel construction of stop check valve adapted to check valve 1 made according to the present in- 10 1 freely open to outflow of fluid therethrough and Vcntion, said valves 5 being laterally connected having means to admit of inflow of fluid theretogether by pipe sections 8, wherebysaid valves through under predetermined conditions, maand pipe sections together provide an oil disnipulatable means being provided to positively charge manifold. Extending from the manifold ;hold the valve closed against both outflow and inthus formed is a pipe line 9 which connects to one 15;,

flow of fluid therethrough. side of a four way plug valve I ll. Connected with Another object of this invention is to provide an adjacent side of said plug valve I0 is a pipe a novel construction of stop check valve adapted branch l I leading to the suction side 12 of a pump to be arranged in multiples to form a common means l3. Communicating with said pipe branch manifold, and whereby each valve is individually I l is'an air intake valve l4 .and an inwardly open- 20 manipulatable to control fluid flow from and back ing check valve l5 associated therewith. The

to the particular source of fluid with which each discharge side it of said pump means 13 is consuch valve is respectively connected, as, for exnected with a third side of said plug valve iii by ample, in a manifold connected respectively by a pipe branch 1?. From the fourth side of said said valves with the respective compartments of plug valve l9 extends a pipe line l8 including oil delivery tank trucks, whereby oil from a sea three way plug valve l9, and beyond the latter lected compartment may be discharged through an air separator 29 and a measuring meter iii, a delivery pipe line and hose, and thereafter the said pipe line 58 being branched beyond said oil trapped in said delivery pipe line may be remeter through a two-way plug valve '22, one

30 turned to the proper compartment thus emptying branch, as 23 extending to and communicating the line and also the hose preparatory to a subwith a suitably arranged and connected delivery sequent oil delivery therethrough. hose 2d, and the other branch, as 25 communi- Other objects of this invention, not at this cating with a delivery faucet 26. Said branch 23 time more particularly enumerated, will be unincluding, beyond said two-way plug valve 22, a

derstood from the following detailed description forwardly opening check valve 27. Connected of the same. with the lateral side of said three-way plug valve An illustrative embodiment of this invention i9 is a by-pass pipe line 28 which connects with is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which: pipe line branch 23, said by-pass pipe line 28 Fig. 1 is a more or less schematic showing of including a forwardly opening check valve 29.

40 the oil delivery means and pipe line of an oil The manifold stop check valves 1, according to tank truck, the manifold connecting the same this invention, each comprise a body or casing 30 with the compartments of the tank including the having an externally threaded tubular intake novel stop check valves according to the present portion 3! longitudinally extending therefrom,

invention. cooperative with which is a union connection 32 Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the novel stop check and union coupling 33 for joining the intake in 45 valve ac or to this invention communication with an outlet pipe 6 leading from Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical longitudinal seca tank compartment, or other source of fluid. At tion of the novel stop check valve according to its opposite sides, said casing 30 is provided with this invention, the same being shown in closed laterally extending internally threaded necks 34 condition; Fig. 4 is in part a side elevation and in providing fluid outlets 35, and being adapted to 50 part a longitudinal section showing the valve receive the pipe connections 8, whereby a pluopen to outflow of oil therethrough; and Fig. 5 rality of the valve casings may be joined together is a similar view showing the valve open to back in manifold forming relation. flow or inflow of oil therethrough. Formed at the inner end of said intake por- Similar characters of reference .are employed tion 3! within the casing interior is an angularly 55 disposed or inclined valve seat means 36, which surrounds an intake port 31. Pivotally mounted on a transverse pivot means or pintle 38, which is supported through transverse bearing means 39 provided in connection with casing 30 above said valve seat means, is a swing check valve means adapted to be moved by gravity into seated relation to said valve seat means 36 for closing said intake port 37. Pivotally connected by its knuckle 40 to said pintle 3B is the hinge plate 4| upon which is supported or carried the check valve means. The check valve means comprises a central hub member 42 having an axial bore 43 extending therethrough, said hub member having at its outer end an external annular flange 44. Surrounding said hub member in stopped relation against said flange 44 is a valve disc 45 which is carried in holder 46, the annular peripheral flange 41 of which embraces the peripheral portion of said valve disc 45. Said holder is provided with an internally threaded central opening to screw onto an externally threaded portion 48 of said hub-member 42, thereby retaining said hub member, valve disc and its holder in assembled relation. Said hub member is provided beyond said externally threaded portion 48 thereof with a journal member 49'of reduced external diameter, the same being adapted to enter through an opening 59 with which said hinge plate 4| is provided. The free end portion of said journal member 49 is externally threaded, as at 5|. Screwed upon the threaded end portion 5| is the internally threaded neck 52 of a hub cap 53 which engages over the outer end of the bore 43 of hub member 42. Said hub cap also serves to hold said check valve assembly in operative assembled relation to said hinge plate 4|, but free to turn axially relative thereto. Said hub cap 53 is provided with a central back-flow valve port 54 communicating with the bore 43 of hub member 42, and so sized and formed as to provide an internal poppet valve seating shoulder 55 within said hub member bore 43, and an external seat 56 engageable by a manipulatable valve means to be subsequently described. Formed on the inner side of the hub member. bore 43 are circumferentially spaced longitudinally extending guide ribs 51. At its outer end said hub member 42 is provided with a central perforate guide piece 58 supported by spider arms 59 from the hub member walls. Slidably centered by said guide ribs 51, for movement in said hub member bore, is a poppet valve disc 69, having a stem 6| slidably supported in said guide piece 58. Spring means 62 arranged between said spider arms 59 and said poppet valve disc 59 yieldably thrusts the latter into engagement with said internal seating shoulder 55, thus normally closing the back-flow valve port 54.

The valve casing 30 is provided with an angularly projecting externally threaded neck 53 axially aligned and opposed to said angular intake port 3'! and its valve seat means 36. Threaded onto said neck 53 is a bonnet 64 having an axial internally screw-threaded section 65 to receive the threaded portion 66 of a rotatable valve stem 61. At its outer end portion said bonnet is provided with a stufiing box 68 and gland 59 to hold a packing 10 around said valve stem, said gland being retained against the packing by means of a stuffing box nut H which is screwed onto the outer end of bonnet 64. At its inner end said valve stem 6! is provided with a stop-valve member 12, movable by rotation of said valve stem into closing engagement with the external seat 56 of said back ilow valve port 54 when the check valve means is closed, and when so engaged also serving to lock said check valve means in closed condition. At its outer end said valve stem 6? is provided with a suitable handle 13 for manipulating the same and the stop valve member 12 carried thereby.

In the operation of the novel stop check manifold valves, as utilized in the oil delivery system of tank trucks, each valve controlsthe discharge of oil from a given compartment of the tank 5. Normally, and when the truck is en route, all the stop check manifold Valves are locked closed by turning. the manipulatable stop valve member 12 into engagement with the swing check valve means, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby also closing the back-flow valve port 54. When it is desired to discharge the content of a given compartment of tank 5, the stop check manifold valve connected with its outlet 6 is opened by retracting the stop valve member 12, whereupon the swing check valve means will open to the outflow of oil through port 31 and ports 35 into the manifold and thence into pipe line 9, as shown in Fig. 4:. The four-way valve I!) is thereupon set to connect pipe line 9 with the suction side of pump means I3, and the discharge side of the latter with pipe line l8; two-way valve 9 being set to close communication with by-pass pipe line 28, andvalve-2Z being set to communicate with branch 23 and thus with deliveryhose 24. With the delivery means thus arranged, the pump means l3 is actuated, and oil is pumped from the selected compartment and discharged to point of delivery through hose 24, the volume of flow being registered by the meter 2|.

After the desired quantity of oil has been pumped through the delivery lines and meter, it is desired to return the oil in the suction line 9 back to the tank compartment. To accomplish this, the four-way valve I9 is turned to connect the discharge side |6-|'l of pump IS with pipe line 9, and the air admission valve I4 in the pump suction line H is opened, whereupon actuation of the pump forces the oil in pipe line 9 back into the manifold. The swing check valve means in the manifold valve swings to closed relation to port 31 under pressure ofvthe thus reversed oil flow, but the pressure of said reve sed oil flow is then exerted upon the poppet valve 60 which yields against its closing spring 62 to open the back flow port 54 to the flow of oil through the bore 43 of hub member 42, and thus through intake portion 3| and the outlet pipe 6 connected thereto back into the tank compartment. After the oil in pipe line 9 has been thus returned to the proper compartment and said pipe line 9 is emptied, the manipulatable stop valve member 12 is turned to move the same into closing relation to the back flow port 54, while at the same time locking down the swing check valve means in closed relation to port 31, this being done while the pump is still running.

After the suction pipe line 9 has been thus emptied, the line l8 and hose 24 may be ar ranged to by-pass the meter 2|, and thereupon discharged of its oil content so as to assure delivery of full measure to the customer. This is accomplished by turning the four-way valve H] to again connect the pump discharge |B-|'! with the pipe line l8, and two-way valve I9 is turned to shut off flow to meter 2| and divert the same to bypass pipe line 28, whereupon, when the pump I3 is actuated the oil lying in line 8 and 23 and in hose 24 is discharged, and these ducts are emptied and blown clean.

From the above description it will be clear that the novel construction of stop check valve is such that, when used for manifold purposes, the same will give an adequate control of the individual outlets of a plurality of tank compartments, while at the same time allowing a back flow of fluid therethrough so as to permit of emptying discharge lines connected with the manifold, which is highly desirable especially in installations connected with oil delivery tank trucks.

I am aware that some changes may be made in the construction of the swing check manifold valve as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and as hereinabove described, without departing from the scope of this invention as defined in the following claims. Hence, I do not limit the invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the devices and parts as described in the foregoing specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the various parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I claim:-

1. A valve for the purposes described, com.- prising a casing formed to provide a lateral through passage whereby the valve may be connected in association with similar valves in a common manifold discharge system, said casing having an intake at right angles to said through passage, the axes of said intake and through passage being disposed in a common plane, said intake having an inlet port bounded by a valve seat disposed in an oblique angular plane relative to the common plane of said intake and through passage, a dependent swing check valve cooperative with said valve seat, said checkvalve having an axial back flow port, a poppet valve to normally close said back flow port, and a manipulatable stop valve means operative to positively close said back flow port and simultaneously lock said swing check-valve in closed relation to said inlet port.

2. A valve for the purposes described, comprising a casing formed to provide a lateral through passage whereby the valve may be connected in association with similar valves in a common manifold discharge system, said casing having an intake at right angles to said through passage, the axes of said intake and through passage being disposed in a common plane, said intake having an inlet port bounded by a valve seat disposed in an oblique angular plane relative to the common plane of said intake and through passage, a dependent swing check valve cooperative with said valve seat, said check-valve having an axial back flow port, a poppet valve to normally close said back flow port, the outer wall of said casing having an open neck axially aligned with said inlet port and back flow port, a bonnet attached to said neck, a manipulatable stop valve to close said back flow port and simultaneously lock said check-valve in closed.- relation to said inlet port, said stop valve having a stem extending outwardly through said bonnet, and said stem and bonnet having mutually cooperative threaded sections, whereby turning of the stem advances or retracts said stop valve relative to said check-valve and back flow port.

ABRAM W. WHEATON. 

